It was already possible by marking the target using the UAV and then scouting the mark with your vehicle. This update seems to make it easier but less rewarding, so no big difference here. The only issue I see is more people just sitting on drones and not doing anything useful.
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The first balance change I am placing my upvote under. Scouting is a Fantasy Fictional mechanic (the way it is implemented), that should never be introduced to the game.
Now it balances legal spotting cheat scouting drone, at least.
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This is going to cause so many problems.
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I didn’t expect this to come this early :D I assumed it would come alongside the next major update. Nice little surprise ^^
Does this mean that if i try to scout a target that is to far away the scouting option goes on the longer cooldown in the same way as if you used it when there was no target in the crosshair to scout?
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It was possible because of a bug, they should’ve fixed it instead of doubling down.
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This was already the case before without any of the restrictions that will now be in place, this is in practice a nerf that will 3x the time per scout and 1/2 the air spawn point reward. So effectively a 6 times nerf to the mechanic but it’s made more available to all players instead of those few in the know.
How so?
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It’s being mentioned:
Doubling down on an obviously stupidly broken, anti fun mechanic to justify a pre existing bad mechanic (drones). Rediculous
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It’s grayed out if you’re exceeding range but have not yet used it. It doesn’t mention what happens mechanically when you try anyway (other than the on-screen hint). I think the same hint comes up when you fail to scout in a tank and the scout option goes on a longer cooldown.
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Scout UAV should be easier to destroy. They are invulnerable against many SPAA/SAM.
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yes, it is a pure pain & random to gun down a drone when it flies in straight line, not even talking about when it maneuvers/circles
Maybe a mechanic to get the drone back (land on the tank?) so that I’m not forced to having the 18s delay. Perhaps a range limit on the drone itself would be nice too, like a 1km bubble around the tank
So now, if you have a UAV in the air but scout without the use of it, you get the UAV penalties ? That seems quite terrible to me. I understand that it is made to prevent spamming the current scouting method, but I think a better way to do that would be to only apply the penalty when in the UAV or up to say, 5s after leaving the UAV. This way if someone is doing regular scouting they are not penalized from having launched a scout drone 5 minutes prior and not being able to take it back (since you can only lose it by destroying it and you can’t get it back, even when on a cap point)
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Honestly just remove scout drones…
And drones overall
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Great, so now more people will be sitting in their spawn scouting and then hopping into CAS. Lovely.
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Why even do this? maps are already tiny, light tanks are very fast and binos and commander sights can spot from behind cover, this is going to ruin flanking and make second spawning even more pointless because the whole team will be lit up by a few light tanks hanging around at spawn and the enemy will just wait around corners to pop u, and add to that the fact that the uav drones are so hard to shoot down.
This is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary, might as we just ad arcade markers at this point…
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Whats the lowest BR vehicle to get scout drone? 8.3?
Cant wait having to deal with vehicle launched micro scout drones in my 1950s tanks and SPAA.
Just screams immersion.
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So they start the match by not being a direct threat to the other team to have the possibility of maybe being a bigger threat later. I personally see that as a fair tradeoff. With the addition of the time and spawn cost nerf as well i think it will balance it out and if it doesn’t then Gaijin now has the tools to make changes again to balance it better, something they didn’t have before. Previously it could be spammed by just one or two players to the point of them getting CAS in like ~1 minute of the match. Now it will take longer and more players will likely do it and that results in the spawn point gain getting spread out over more players making it take even longer.
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I was thinking the same thing. I think drones are great, but only the highest levels of light tanks should have them.
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Sorry if im bit skeptical that game master is downplaying the rammifications of this mechanic.
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